AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 6GB VRAM FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 240.0GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

AMD FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock950MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (375W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +11%

3.789 TFLOPS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

3.405 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

FirePro S10000 Passive 12GB

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Mar 2014

Southern Islands

Generation

FirePro

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

825 MHz

-

Boost Clock

950 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

6GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

384bit

Memory Bus

384bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

28

-

2048

Shading Units

1792

128

TMUs

112

32

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

768 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

30.40 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

106.4 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.405 TFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

851.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

500W

TDP

375W

900 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Orthrus

GCN 1.0

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

1.2

Vulkan

1.2

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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